Doubleline Fusilier, Pterocaesio digramma (Bleeker 1865)


Other Names: Black-tipped Fusilier, Double Stripe Fusilier, Doublelined Fusilier, Double-lined Fusilier, Twin Yellow-striped Fusilier, Two-stripe Fusilier

Double-lined Fusiliers, Pterocaesio digramma, being attended by a Common Cleanerfish, Labroides dimidiatus, near Vlaming Head, North West Cape, Western Australia, December 2017. Source: Kristin Anderson / iNaturalist.org. License: CC by Attribution-NonCommercial

Summary:
A bluish-green fusilier becoming paler below, with a pair of narrow yellow stripes along the back and midside, and dark caudal-fin tips. The lower yellow stripe is mostly below the lateral line (except on the caudal peduncle).

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Bray, D.J. 2019, Pterocaesio digramma in Fishes of Australia, accessed 29 Mar 2024, https://fishesofaustralia.net.au/Home/species/543

Doubleline Fusilier, Pterocaesio digramma (Bleeker 1865)

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Distribution

Shark Bay to the Dampier Archipelago, and Scott Reef, Western Australia, Ashmore Reef, Timor Sea, and the northern Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, to at least Sydney, New South Wales; also Norfolk Island in the Tasman Sea. Elsewhere the species occurs in the tropical, west Pacific.
Forms schools around coastal, lagoon and seaward reefs.

Fisheries

Heavily fished in parts of its range.

Species Citation

Caesio digramma Bleeker1865, Nederlandsch Tijdschrift voor de Dierkunde 2: 180. Type locality: Ambon, Indonesia.

Author

Bray, D.J. 2019

Resources

Australian Faunal Directory

Doubleline Fusilier, Pterocaesio digramma (Bleeker 1865)

References


Allen, G.R. 1997. Marine Fishes of Tropical Australia and South-east Asia. Perth : Western Australian Museum 292 pp. 106 pls. 

Allen, G.R. & Erdmann, M.V. 2012. Reef fishes of the East Indies. Perth : Tropical Reef Research 3 vols, 1260 pp.

Allen, G.R. & Swainston, R. 1988. The Marine Fishes of North-Western Australia. A field guide for anglers and divers. Perth, WA : Western Australian Museum vi 201 pp., 70 pls. 

Bleeker, P. 1865. Description de quelques espèces inédites de poissons de l'Archipel des Moluques. Nederlandsch Tijdschrift voor de Dierkunde 2: 177-181 

Carpenter, K.E. 1987. Revision of the Indo-Pacific fish family Caesionidae (Lutjanoidea), with descriptions of five new species. Indo-Pacific Fishes 15: 1-56 figs 1-10, pls 1-7 

Carpenter, K.E. 1988. FAO Species Catalogue. Fusilier fishes of the World. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of caesionid species known to date. FAO Fisheries Synopsis No. 125, Vol. 8. Rome : FAO 75 pp. 

Carpenter, K.E. 2001. Caesionidae. pp. 2919-2941 in Carpenter, K.E. & Niem, V.H. (eds). The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Pacific. FAO Species Identification Guide for Fisheries Purposes. Rome : FAO Vol. 5 2791-3379 pp. 

Francis, M.P. 1991. Additions to the fish faunas of Lord Howe, Norfolk and Kermadec Islands, Southwest Pacific Ocean. Pacific Science 45(2): 204-220.

Francis, M. 1993. Checklist of the coastal fishes of Lord Howe, Norfolk, and Kermadec Islands, southwest Pacific Ocean. Pacific Science 47(2): 136-170 figs 1-2 

Hutchins, J.B. 2001. Biodiversity of shallow reef fish assemblages in Western Australia using a rapid censusing technique. Records of the Western Australian Museum 20: 247-270 

Johnson, J.W. 2010. Fishes of the Moreton Bay Marine Park and adjacent continental shelf waters, Queensland, Australia. pp. 299-353 in Davie, P.J.F. & Phillips, J.A. Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Marine Biological Workshop, The Marine Fauna and Flora of Moreton Bay. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 54(3) 

Kuiter, R.H. 1993. Coastal Fishes of South-eastern Australia. Bathurst : Crawford House Press 437 pp. 

Randall, J.E., Allen, G.R. & Steene, R. 1997. Fishes of the Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea. Bathurst : Crawford House Press 557 pp. figs. 

Russell, B., Myers, R., Smith-Vaniz, W.F., Carpenter, K.E. & Lawrence, A. 2016. Pterocaesio digramma. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T20252379A65927523. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T20252379A65927523.en. Downloaded on 04 February 2019.

Sainsbury, K.J., Kailola, P.J. & Leyland, G.G. 1984. Continental Shelf Fishes of Northern and North-Western Australia. Canberra : Fisheries Information Service 375 pp. figs & pls.

Quick Facts


CAAB Code:37346050

Conservation:IUCN Least Concern

Feeding:1-50 m (usually <30 m)

Habitat:Reef associated

Max Size:30 cm TL

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